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This paper contains an example of the transmission simulator method for experimental dynamic substructuring using the Ampair 600 Wind Turbine. The structure of interest is the hub-and-three-bladed assembly. A single blade and hub is used as a substructure to develop a model for the hub-and-three-bladed assembly. The single-blade-and-hub substructure was developed from elastic modes of a free-free test and rigid body modes analytically derived from measured mass properties. This substructure can be rotated and replicated using the hub as a transmission simulator. Substructuring calculations were then performed using the transmission simulator method to derive a model of the hub-and-three-bladed assembly. This paper concludes with a comparison for this combined model to truth data derived from a free-free modal test of the entire rotor.
Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.
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Roettgen, D.R., Mayes, R.L. (2015). Ampair 600 Wind Turbine Three-Bladed Assembly Substructuring Using the Transmission Simulator Method. In: Allen, M., Mayes, R., Rixen, D. (eds) Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15209-7_11
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